urban mobility, part deux

I've just read a local news article about how there's a ballot initiative in San Francisco for this November's election: one that will make voters choose between funding our public transit systems -- which are in dire need, with 700,000 passengers per day -- and funding more parking for cars, a measure backed by the Chamber of Commerce and initiated by the guy who founded The Gap, which presumably would sell more jeans and t-shirts if people had more places to park their SUVs.

Read about the initiative here .

Apparently, these are dueling ballot measures, and they're either/or bills... we'll either get funding for public transit, or we'll invest in cars and parking lots. This is why I cannot stand the ballot-initiative system in California. Ballot initiatives are like malware. You click on the wrong thing, and you destroy something that's important.

Apparently the president of the SF Board of Supervisors was quoted as saying, "This is about San Francisco's destiny. Voters will have to ask themselves, 'Do you want San Francisco to be more like Paris or Los Angeles?'"

That's a no-brainer for me. You know how I'm going to vote.